2018-19 Guide To Yellow Springs

10 the Guide to YelLow Springs y 2018 - 1 9 Y e l l ow S p r i n g s N ews $ $ $ Continued from page 9 y  CMYS on Antioch’s Legacy y details of his tenure with the department in the 1960s. Distinguished composer and Ford and Fulbright scholar Don Keats was chair for a time. With his wife, vocal - ist Ellie Keats, and faculty members Joe Liebling and Andrew Apostle, the college put on stupendous productions in Kelly Hall, Simons said. They performed Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Praetorius’ Christ - mas Mass, Vivaldi’s “Gloria,” and a full on production of Guillaume de Machaut’s Mass, replete with stained glass windows designed after Chartres Cathedral by art department chair Bob Metcalf.  “To have that kind of strength ... to me it was Camelot — the golden age,” Simons said.  For about five years in the late ’60s, the college also hosted its own Antioch Col - lege String Quartet, made up of graduates of Juilliard. So in addition to performances of avant-garde percussionists from New York City, dancers and musicians from India, and the college’s own choir and orchestra (always open to villagers and college graduates interested in playing or singing), the college had its own chamber musicians to regularly regale both the campus and the village.  “Antioch in the ’60s was a cultural Mecca,” Simons said. But according to both Bent and Simons, the music department suffered a great decline during the 1970s, just as the col- lege was turning its attention to its far- flung satellite campuses and suffering grave budget problems, including a strike in 1973. As music at the college was much of how music in the village happened, when the college began its decline, villagers stepped up in different capacities to keep differ - ent programs afloat, Bent and Simons said. Villager Pat Olds took over the early music program Antioch started, Bent took on the Community Chorus started by the college, and later a new group of villagers would eventually pick up where others had left off with CMYS as well.  College physics professor Bob Turoff was actually the first to organize a committed series of chamber concerts, mostly inviting musicians from the Cincinnati Symphony. Starting in 1979, the series ran for three years, until Turoff left town in 1982. At a post-concert dinner of the last scheduled concert, a group of villagers talked of resur- recting their own CMYS series. They found their old incorporation papers, and Jane Baker became the first president of the new CMYS. CMYS’ current board members are Bar- bara Bullock, Christopher Chaffee (presi - dent), Celia Diamond, Mary Fahrenbruck, Karen Gardner, Scott Kellogg, Ron Kerans, Charles Taylor, Steven Winteregg and Daniel Zehringer.  In fall 2018 and spring 2019, CMYS will bring a variety of ensembles — “Old Friends, New Friends” — to local audiences. Among the groups are the Akropolis Reed Quintet, Attacca String Quartet, JACK Quartet — named Musica America’s 2019 Ensemble of the Year — and Seraph Brass. The Annual Competition for Emerging Pro - fessional Ensembles will take place on April 28, 2019. 1 • PhotoS courtesy of Antiochiana, Antioch College A performance in Kelly Hall, with David Epstein, a 1954 graduate of Antioch, conducting. Epstein taught music at the college in the ’50s and early ’60s; Walter Anderson is at the far right, seated at the organ. with the college, and we were losing money anyway,” Bent recalled. CMYS went dormant while the college began hiring more faculty and ramping up its music program. Local resident Richard Simons, now in his 80s, still recalls the Judy Spock, an Antioch graduate, created the CMYS cellist logo in the late 1950s; it’s still in use. Amy Kelly, R.P h ., mgr. Emma Robinow, R.P h . 767-1070 • 263 Xenia Ave. MON.– FRI. 10 a.m.–7 p.m. SAT. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. CLOSED SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS How may we help you live better and longer? We have Premium Abdallah chocolates , vitamins, a full line of Burt’s Bees products, cards, Antioch apparel & more!